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Yellow Roadway


Yellow Roadway once known as Yellow Roadway Corporation, their new name, YRC Worldwide better emphasizes the breadth and depth of their enterprise. It’s a publicly traded company having a good stock performance result. Yellow Roadway is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under YELL. 
 
It operates in over 70 countries around the world and with an expanded portfolio to include logistics as well as global, national and regional transportation. Their objective is to provide seamless, nonstop global transportation solutions to the marketplace.

YRC Worldwide Inc. reported 2005 adjusted diluted earnings per share of 5.28 dollars compared to last year's 3.96 dollars, an increase of 33percent. Adjustments for 2005 were .10 dollars of attainment charges, .04 dollars for executive severance, .06 dollars for gains on property disposals, and .08 dollars for an unexpected increase in the effective tax rate. The company eliminates these charges when evaluating performance and does not consider them part of core operations. 2005 adjusted earnings per share includes .18 dollars of dilution from the company's contingent convertible notes based on an average Yellow Roadway Corporation stock price of 50.66 dollars for the year. No related dilution was included in the 2004 adjusted earnings per share. Reported earnings per share for 2005 was 5.12 dollars compared to prior year's reported earnings per share of 3.75 dollars, an increase of 37percent.

For the fourth quarter 2005, YRC Worldwide reported adjusted earnings per share of 1.39 dollars compared to fourth quarter 2004 of 1.24 dollars. Adjustments for fourth quarter 2005 were .03 dollars of acquisition charges, .05 dollars of gains on property disposals and .07 dollars for the increase in the effective tax rate. Fourth quarter 2005 adjusted earnings per share includes .03 dollars of dilution from the contingent convertible notes based on an average Yellow Roadway Corporation stock price of 44.85 dollars for the quarter. No related dilution was included in the fourth quarter 2004 adjusted earnings per share. Reported earnings per share for fourth quarter 2005 were 1.34 dollars compared to fourth quarter 2004 of 1.24 dollars. They had another excellent year in 2005 both financially and deliberately. Their business units performed well and delivered solid financial results, which are even more extraordinary considering they added the USF companies to their portfolio and realigned their regional service coverage.
 
The company’s objective is to be the leading provider of time-definite, guaranteed, defect-free, comfortable transportation services for business customers worldwide.

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